ActivityPub for WordPress and fediverse:creator

Introduction I share all of my New Leaf Journal articles to my Mastodon account (@nafnlj@linuxrocks.online) using a WordPress plugin called Share on Mastodon. See what my most recent post (before this one) looks like on my Mastodon profile: See the post on Mastodon. The fediverse:creator Tag Note the “More from Nicholas A. Ferrell” at the bottom of my social re-post. Mastodon has a feature called author attribution. Properly configuring author attribution can add a link to an article/post author’s profile to link cards for his or her articles from around the web. Or as Join Mastodon puts it: If you are an author or creator, your Mastodon account can be credited and linked when your articles, blog posts, and other works are shared on Mastodon and across the fediverse. This is possible by including a fediverse:creator tag in the HTML code of the websites where your work is published. In short, two things must happen for author attribution to work. The website where the author posts…